TMR Game 2011 – Week 37

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 37.

8 weeks to go. This post accepts entries for these 2 events.

– F1 Japanese GP, Suzuka
– NASCAR Cup Kansas

Housekeeping

Each week you pick 10 entries with a maximum of 7 of those coming from a single championship.
You can have any mix of races from those listed in this post, and you don’t have to use all of them.

See this page for the rules.

Email reminders will be sent on Thursdays or Fridays by either myself or Sebastian. Please leave a valid email address in the comment form.

Scores

Results

Wk 36 IndyCar ILMC/ALMS MotoGP DTM NASCAR Cup
Pts Kentucky Road Atlanta Motegi Valencia Dover
1 50 Carpenter #8 Peugeot Pedrosa Ekstrom Kurt Busch
2 40 Franchitti #10 Oreca Peugeot Lorenzo Albuquerque Johnson
3 35 Dixon #007 Aston Martin Stoner Tomcyzk Edwards
4 32 Hinchcliffe #24 Oak Simoncelli Scheider Kahne
5 30 Hunter-Reay #12 Rebellion Dovizioso Molina Kenseth
6 28 Servia #33 Level 5 Spies Jarvis Kyle Busch
7 26 Cunningham #15 Oak Hayden Spengler Allmendinger
8 24 Briscoe #52 PR1 Mathiasen Edwards Paffett Bowyer
9 22 Rice #89 Intersport Aoyama Rockenfeller Ambrose
10 20 Patrick #51 AF Corse de Puniet Green Harvick

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Player Scores

Player IndyCar ILMC / ALMS MotoGP DTM NASCAR Week 36
Maverick 40 51 155 85 – 331
Sebastian X 75 51 125 61 – 312
Pat W 40 52 125 85 – 302
RubberGoat 86 1 125 85 – 297
The Speedgeek 75 51 117 48 – 291
Sean – 52 125 111 – 288
Felipe Gana 86 52 85 35 – 258
Jackie – 52 133 61 – 246
Startledbunny 51 1 75 85 30 242
Dylanpt24 34 51 103 – 28 216
Ryan (80%) 173
Crooked Cap (80%) 173
James (80%) 173
Jay (80%) 173
Mike Rice (80%) 173

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Well done Mav! Sebastian and I had relatively decent scores too.

That said, none of us did particularly well given the points on the table, due to the retirements of the no.7 Peugeot and the two Audis. At least the Audis picked up a point apiece, the Pug scored a flat zero. The MotoGP race was the only happy hunting ground for most of us this week.

Please see the score-by-score results produced by Sebastian, where you can see the potential maxium score this week was 450! Nowhere near, blame those diesels.

Leaderboard

Pos Pre +/- Name Prior Wk 36 Total +
1 2 1 Sebastian X 9293 312 9605
2 1 -1 Sean 9298 288 9586 19
3 3 0 RubberGoat 8914 297 9211 375
4 4 0 Felipe Gana 8863 258 9121 90
5 5 0 Pat W 8804 302 9106 15
6 7 1 Maverick 8756 331 9087 19
7 6 -1 The Speedgeek 8764 291 9055 32
8 8 0 Jackie 8673 246 8919 136
9 9 0 Startledbunny 8661 242 8903 16
10 10 0 Dylanpt24 8061 216 8277 626
11 11 0 Ryan 8037 173 8210 67
12 12 0 The Crooked Cap 7642 173 7815 395
13 13 0 James 7163 173 7336 479
14 14 0 Jay 6694 173 6867 469
15 15 0 Mike Rice 6178 173 6351 516

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Sebastian retakes the top spot! Well done for overcoming the big deficit. Can Sean mount a fightback?

Mav overtakes Geek for 6th position and closes in on me. I’m glad I outscored Felipe though, I want that 4th-place back.

Races This Week

F1 Japanese GP – Suzuka

Suzuka has become a classic venue and it just feels right that the title will be decided there, just as it was in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Last year the drivers struggled to keep the cars on the track, I hope they’ve remember how to do it this year. I hope the DRS isn’t too effective.

NASCAR Cup Kansas

Spring’s race was won by Brad Keselowski, with Dale Jr 2nd and Hamlin 3rd. The form may be a little different now, particularly with the complication of the Chase.

Good luck!

12 thoughts on “TMR Game 2011 – Week 37”

  1. Oh Bother! šŸ˜¦

    Must do better…

    F1
    Vettel
    Alonso
    Hamilton
    Button
    Webber
    Schumacher

    NASCAR
    Kevin Harvick
    Tony Stewart
    Matt Kenseth
    Jimmie Johnson

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  2. I have had a lucky three weeks against Sean bearing in mind our selections only varied by one or two a week, and the choices Sean lost points on were ones I so almost picked myself. I seem to have spent almost the entire year clawing back my deficit against Sean, from 105 back in Week 15 to gaining small leads in weeks 22 and 23, to fall back to 78 behind, back up within 14 by week 27, and week 30 to be 89 behind.

    Looking at the remaining events, for F1 and MotoGP we have been making very similar choices (they seem the obvious ones), I doubt there will be much difference between our approach to the last Indycar and DTM rounds, so the difference may well be how we pick around the last ILMC event at Zhuhai, but I suspect the biggest decider will be the NASCAR picks, with the remaining weeks forcing a minimum of sixteen choices from that series. Unfortunately, that is more Sean’s turf than mine, but with us both being so close, luck will have the biggest say.

    I am surprising myself by picking four rather than the minimum three NASCAR choices, but that is the way my numbers pointed.

    Formula One:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Fernando Alonso
    Felipe Massa

    NASCAR:
    Jimmie Johnson
    Carl Edwards
    Jeff Gordon
    Tony Stewart

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  4. Woohoo! Finally a win… and 4th place is now within striking distance too… oh… it’s a NASCAR week…
    #backtoearthwithabump

    Formula One:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Fernando Alonso
    Michael Schumacher
    Nico Rosberg

    NASCAR:
    Carl Edwards
    Matt Kenseth
    Brad Keselowski

    …I think, might have a rethink about the NASCAR drivers though

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  6. F1
    Vettel
    Webber
    Button
    Hamilton
    Alonso
    Schumacher (I seem to remember he traditionally ran well here)

    NASCAR Cup
    Edwards
    Kyle Busch
    Johnson
    Jeff Gordon

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  7. I am away this weekend (visiting Gavin Rubbergoat!) so if there any problems, comments which aren’t submitted, driver changes etc, I probably won’t deal with them until Monday.
    If your comment goes to Spam don’t worry it’ll still have the correct timestamp when I check it next week, but maybe you should email it if that happens.

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  9. F1:
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Fernando Alonso
    Paul di Resta

    NASCAR Cup:
    Kyle Busch
    Jimmie Johnson
    Jeff Gordon
    Matt Kenseth

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  10. F1
    Sebastian Vettel
    Mark Webber
    Jenson Button
    Lewis Hamilton
    Fernando Alonso
    Michael Schumacher

    NASCAR
    Kyle Busch
    Jimmie Johnson
    Tony Stewart
    Carl Edwards

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  11. Was worried about picking Keselowski, even though there was reasoning behind it, but feeling a lot more relaxed now that Sean has picked him too

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